The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-22
Pith and Point.

ROSES sell in this country at the rate of
"a 600 900 buds and blossoms and 1,OOO,OO0
plants each year.
BECAUSE a druggist keeps soda fountain,
out West, they call him tizzyologist. -
Ne1cmon Independent.
If good pennies had one of the qualities
of bad pennies, that of soon returning, they
would much improve.
JUNE is the proper month in which to turn
over a new leaf All the commandments
are in June.-New orleans Picayune.
PoIrT1cs makes strange bed-fellows. And
the bed-fellows do not sleep. They lie
awake watching one another-Bd}timore
american,
THE parents of pair of Boston twins
named one Simul and the other Taneous
because they were born at the same time
Washington critic.
ar is not the big hog that pays, remarks
the Mirror and Farmer. This is very true
The big hog always makes the other fellows
pay.-Lo,geH Courier.
FARMERS in the summer time don't need
to buy the funny papers. All they have to
do is to go out and watch the city boarder
trying to swing the scythe.
SINCE it has been discovered that the
President fished for trout with worms it is
estimated that he has lost nine votes in this
city alone.-PhHadelphid CdH
AN advertisement of " desirable resi-
dence" says lit commands not only view
of the pretty little railway station, but also
of the people who miss the trains"
ACCORDING to an eminent English au-
thority goose lives fifty years. Provided,
of course, he refrains from blowing out the
gas when he retires.- Yonkers Statesman
THE "great American condenser is
doing some queer work on the big Sunday
journals. He takes a twenty-four line para
graph and boils it down into two columns
and half NorrjStopn Herald.
SHE No; ] can't give you another
dance, but I'll introduce you to the prettiest
girl in the room" He: Z" But don't want
to dance with the prettiest girl in the room.
| want to dance with youH'-Punch.
A LONG, thin youth of Pittsburgh can i'm
itate steam whistle perfectly. The other
day the hands in one of the factories quit
work at half-past eleven when they heard
him toot. They thought it was noon.
IT is stated as a fact that man was in
dicted at the late term of court in Tucker
county, West Virginia, for stealing a saw
mill, boiler and ali. He succeeded in getting
away with it and carried it into Pennsyl-
vania.
A GEORGIA man says he met a panther in
the Oketinokee Swamp, but saved his life
by pretending that he was dead. The beast
was not hungry, so he covered him over
with leaves and left him. He did not wait
for the creatures return.
As an item of interest it might be stated
that pile of strength that would reach half
way to the moon is wasted in this country
every year by people holding up hymn
books in church who don't know a b-tiat
note from the howl of a brindle cat.
OF all the suggestions for celebrating the
jubilee that have been made that of an
Edinburgh medical student certainly " takes
the cake" His idea is that the university
how, OH ttll oil. oil nle
take their degree without examination thus
letting loose on the community horde of
youths licensed to poison as physicians and
main as surgeons.-PdU Mall Gozeue.
SINCE the recent discussion in the Century
Mdgozjne of composite photography the pos
siblites of its use become more and more
enticing. Why may we not have taken a
United States and name it "O Our Sovereign
Ruler" Indeed, by condensing the like
nesses of the entire population of the globe
might we not secure a correct and truthful
picture of our most remote grandfather
Adam?
The total number of persons killed by
wild animals and venOmous snakes in the
ten divisions of Bengal during the official
year 1886 was the highest in the last five
years and amounted to II 1928 AS is usual
nine-tenths of these deaths were caused by
snakes. But of - ,223 buffaloes, oxen horses
81 were killed by snakes. These annual
returns do not take account of sheep, goats,
pigs and monkeys, the destruction of which
is very large The hyena is credited with
the destruction of 773 head of cattle.
FARMER SPENCER of West Monroe, n. Y.
has a queer little calf. 1t is six weeks old
and about half the size of calf of its age
It's body is covered with genuine black wool
similar to that seen on lambs, while perhaps
there are half dozen spots of long, silky
white hair. Its legs and feet resemble those
of calf, while its head and tail, which are
black, are those of a sheep, and it beats
like lamb. The mother and father of this
curiosity We're both of bright red, and Mr.
Spencer has had no sheep on the premises
until within few weeks ago. The mother
refused to own her offspring and would have
destroyed it had it not been taken away.
SAYS the Rev. Judson Smith of the Amer
can Board of Boston American mission
aries have ever been treated with especa
consideration by the Chinese authorities
Ii Hung Chang, the Chinese statesman
said, have read the Bible; l know all yor
Christian nations preach the golden rule OF
" Do unto Others as you would be done by,
but none of you live up to it. The Ameri
cans come nearest to living up to it, how
ever Thus, despite the treatment China
men receive in some parts of the Unitet
States, Americans are the favorite foreigner.
with the Chinese people and government
and our missionaries have received more o
their favor than missionaries from othe
countries"
THE fact that Count Herbert Bismarcl
was lately relegated to the back seat on
drag of an English nobleman for the reason
that the front seat had been assigned t,
Buffalo Bill may lead to war between Ger
many and England. But it is to be hope,
that hostilities may be averted. Count Bis
marck's father is as sensible as he is stern
man of brains and gumption as well as o
blood and iron, so it is only fair to ASSUME
that it will occur to him that mere count
even though he answers to the name o
Bismarck and is the son of his father, ma
well be backward in coming forward to tn
front seat when Buffalo Bill is around
Counts are comparatively common. Their
is but one Buffalo Bill.
Tho Naxy Drnfoof